Young folks' history of the United States . nd we shall see hereafter how well they defendedthe colony. Then they brought on shore all their possessions, suchas we may see at this day preserved as relics in Pil-grim Hall, at Plymouth, — arm-chairs and spinning-wheels, and Miles Stand-ishs great iron dinner-kettle, and little LoraStandishs sampler, and thecradle of Peregrine White,the little boy born onboard the Ma3flower,and who was named Pere- peregrine whites from the peregrinations of the Pilgrims. Landing in early winter on that cold, bleak shore, HardsMpsthey began at once to
Young folks' history of the United States . nd we shall see hereafter how well they defendedthe colony. Then they brought on shore all their possessions, suchas we may see at this day preserved as relics in Pil-grim Hall, at Plymouth, — arm-chairs and spinning-wheels, and Miles Stand-ishs great iron dinner-kettle, and little LoraStandishs sampler, and thecradle of Peregrine White,the little boy born onboard the Ma3flower,and who was named Pere- peregrine whites from the peregrinations of the Pilgrims. Landing in early winter on that cold, bleak shore, HardsMpsthey began at once to build houses. There were one ^ and two persons to be provided with they built a common house as a temporary abodefor all; then they divided themselves into nineteenfamilies ; and by degrees a house was built for houses were of logs and mortar, with thatchedroofs, and with windows of oiled paper. The roomswere so crowded that they were as full of beds asthey could he, one by another. Then they built a. lived. 60 YOUNG FOLKS* UNITED STATES. great shed for the public goods, and a small hospitalfor the sick, and a church, which had four cannonplanted on the top for defence. Here they could havetheir religious services in safety, with good ElderHow they Brcwstcr for their minister. As for food, they lived byhunting and fishing till they could raise corn. Some-times they killed deer and wild turkeys. They caughtshad and cod; took lobsters and shell-fish. The Indi-ans taught them to shoot fish with arrows, and to treadeels out of the mud with their feet. Once they tried toeat an eagle, and thought it tasted very much like asheep. For several years they had no cattle, andcould scarcely have kept any, because of the lions, asthey called the wolves, which came close to the they suffered for want of food; often theyknew not at night where to have a bit in the morning. I have seen men, says one of their number, staggerby reason of faintnes
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